Los Angeles County Sheriff SWAT team and Whittier Police Dept. in front of an apartment building with a barricaded suspect and a hostage along the 7900 block of Bright Ave. in Whittier, Calif., on Thursday, April 17, 2014.
(Keith Birmingham Pasadena Star-News)

WHITTIER - An armed man who held his wife hostage for nearly 12 1/2 hours gave himself up to authorities early Friday morning.

A crisis negotiator from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department convinced the man to surrender, according to Officer Brad White, spokesman for the Whittier Police Department.

Roger Jameson, 43, of Whittier was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon and making terrorist threats. Police recovered a gun.

Jameson’s wife suffered minor injuries to her face and was taken to a local hospital. She left the site with blood running down the right side of her face from what appeared to be a cut under her eye. White said the suspect hit his wife but he didn’t know how many times.

No shots were fired during the standoff which ended at 4:22 a.m. Friday. Police evacuated residents on Bright Avenue and shut down nearby streets.

The incident started around 4 p.m. Thursday in an apartment in the 7900 block of Bright Avenue when police got a call about a disturbance involving a man and a woman. Police still don’t know what led to the dispute.

Officers who responded to the call saw the man breaking windows in the apartment. They soon learned that the man had a handgun, White said.

Officers surrounded the place and called in the sheriff’s Crisis Negotiations Team as well as its Special Enforcement Team which is the sheriff’s SWAT team.

The man refused to come out.

“He barricaded himself in a closet in the bedroom,” White said. The suspect had his wife with him, White added.

Deputies were able to get a phone into the apartment.

A four-block perimeter was established Thursday around the scene, with the Red Cross setting up an evacuation area nearby for residents of the building and neighboring structures. White estimated over 50 people were evacuated.

The Sheriff’s Arson/Explosives unit was also at the scene.

Reports that there were children in the suspect’s apartment were unfounded, White said.

As of Friday afternoon, Jameson was being held at the Inmate Reception Center in Los Angeles. His bail is $180,000.